Reconstruction:Latin/suta
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This Latin entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence. |
Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Generally regarded as coming from Proto-Slavic *sъto, which is ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱm̥tóm.
It has also been proposed that the Slavic *sъto and the Romance *suta were parallel borrowings from some (unattested) Thracian descendant of Proto-Indo-European *ḱm̥tóm.[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]*suta f (Proto-Balkan-Romance)
Reconstruction notes
[edit]Note that the Balkan Romance numerals from 11 to 19 and the multiples of ten from 20 to 90 were calqued from Slavic[2][note 1] (with the exception of Aromanian yinghits < Latin vīgintī). The numeral for 100 could not be calqued from Slavic since *sъto was not a transparent compound like the others.
The adoption of an early Slavic o-neuter as a Balkan Romance a-feminine is regular.[3] Cf. Romanian cerneală, nicovală, vadră.
The adoption of early Slavic /ь/ and /ъ/ as /i/ and /u/ respectively is also reflected in Romanian sticlă, mătură as well as numerous early borrowings into other languages.[4]
*suta has been displaced in Istro-Romanian by a newer Slavic borrowing sto.
Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- Loporcaro, Michele & Gardani, Francesco & Giudici, Alberto. 2021. “Contact-induced complexification in the gender system of Istro-Romanian”. Journal of Language Contact. 14: 72–126.
- Paliga, Sorin. 1988. “Slovansko *sъto – izzivalen problem?”. Slavistična Revija. 36: 349–58.
- Saenko, Mikhail. 2023. “Праславянские «Редуцированные» и Гласные u и i в словенском говоре Валбурги: Некоторые параллели”. Исследования по славянской диалектологии. 24: 5–39.
- ^ It has been objected that the presence of similar numerals in Albanian may suggest that they continue a Palaeo-Balkan pattern, but no pre-Slavic evidence of this has yet been found. Incidentally, Albanian has a mixed-vigesimal system with no attested parallel in the Balkans.